Archive for November, 2008
Posted on November 30, 2008. Filed under: Christmas, Christmas Songs, Composer, Entertainment, Live Music, Music, Music Marketing, MySpace, Promotion, Song Hook, Songwriting, army, christmas tree, iraq, milblogging, military, music distribution, music fans, music website, new zealand, pr, soldiers, song competition, song ideas, songwriting information | Tags: another stretch, another stretch in iraq, army ration, body bag, bradley, christmas parcel, christmas song, christmas song competition, December, desert storm, fellowship, iraq, iraq war, luigi cappel, made ready to eat, marching, merry christmas, milblogging, mini christmas tree, miniature christmas tree, mre, off to war, paramount group, personnel carrier, romance, sand in iraq, santa, serving my country, sleigh bells, soldiers, soldiers christmas parcel, song competition, songwriter, thanksgiving, trust, un, us, USA, yellow ribbon |
December is only hours away and I have just entered my song Another Stretch in Iraq into the Paramount Group’s Christmas Song Competition. Why enter a song about a soldier going back to the Iraq War?
I couldn’t think of anything more poignant than soldiers in the field opening up a parcel from home which has [...]
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Posted on November 22, 2008. Filed under: Composer, Music, Music Marketing, MySpace, Song Hook, Songwriting, artist, father, music education, music video, music website, musical gift, performer, song ideas, songwriting information, youtube | Tags: australia, country music, country song, craft a song, dolly parton, evoke emotion, kirsty lee akers, luigi cappel, music video, MySpace, Songwriting, sounds like dolly parton, story telling, the territory, weaving a story, write a great country song, youtube |
Many people will tell you that there are 2 key ingedients in writing a great country song, the first is telling a good story and the other is roping you in so that you get emotionally involved in the story.
Today I received a ‘friend request’ on my MySpace page from Kirsty Lee Akers. Her voice [...]
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Posted on November 14, 2008. Filed under: Christmas, Composer, Entertainment, Hit Songs, Music, Songwriting, music education, music video, music website, new zealand, news media, newspaper, song ideas, songwriting information | Tags: al dubin, big boys toys, breadline, christmas shopping, Christmas Songs, eric clapton, food parcel, foodbank, great depression, harry warren, nobody loves you, peter paul and mary, song lyrics, songs, the depression, tom waitts, we're in the money, yip harburg, you called me al |
When i was a tiny tot there was a song on a record that my parents used to play, the group was Peter, Paul and Mary and the song was Buddy Can You Spare a Dime. I used to sing it and thought it was about a guy down on his luck. Sort of like [...]
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Posted on November 10, 2008. Filed under: Christmas, Christmas Songs, Composer, Hit Songs, Music, Music Charts, Music Marketing, Songwriting, Top Hits, iraq, music website, musical gift, songwriting information | Tags: another stretch in iraq, auckland, Christmas, christmas cheer, christmas day, christmas hit song, christmas in iraq, christmas mood, christmas song, christmas stocking, happy christmas song, hit song, hot song charts, Live aid, love songs, luigi cappel, lyrics vault, mp3 musicgram, music christmas present, new zealand, Ralph Murphy, singer songwriter, sleigh bells, songwriter, write a christmas song, write a hit song |
I’ve noticed that a number of people who read my blog recently found me by putting in a search query on the search engine, asking how to write a Christmas song. They found me because of a blog I wrote back in August, saying that was the time you needed to write it.
That blog covered [...]
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Posted on November 5, 2008. Filed under: Entertainment, Music, Songwriting, songwriting information | Tags: apartheid, barack obama, blues, bourgeois blues, chicago, grandmother, huddy ledbetter, i have a dream, jazz, leadbelly, malcolm x, martin Luther King, obama, president, racial prejudice, song subject, song topic, south africa, USA |
For those of you looking for an idea for a song, the events today deserve many. The day that America elected a Black President. I’m not an American and although I am deeply moved, my experience is second hand. I can’t do this song justice.
I marched against Apartheid in South Africa having previously seen segregation [...]
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Posted on November 2, 2008. Filed under: Composer, Entertainment, Hit Songs, Music, Songwriting, artist, daughter, father, new zealand, songwriting information | Tags: auckland, business card, country music, country songs, ebay, finding song ideas, highlighter, luigi cappel, lyric book, lyric ideas, lyric sheet, memorise lyrics, memorising, new zealand, post it bookmark, post it flag, reading song ideas, song for daughter, song ideas, song sheets, songwriter, when madison smiles |
I don’t usually suffer for a lack of ideas to write songs about because I am always open to them. I read lots of books and always find a way to keep notes or make sure I can find my way back to lines that caught my attention.
I recently found a highlighter that also has [...]
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